January 1, 2011 – present
Off the Air is an American anthology television series created by Dave Hughes for Adult Swim. The series is presented without explanation or narration as a showcase of surreal footage arranged around a single loose theme (expressed in the episode title) and blended without pause into a single continuous presentation. The series premiered Adult Swim on January 1, 2011, 4:00 am New Year's Day.
Hughes, a former employee of MTV Animation, first pitched it to Mike Lazzo at Adult Swim after producing a video mixtape for the network's 2010 Carnival Tour event. As a result of its 4 a.m. graveyard slot and small selection of episodes, the series remains relatively unknown on the network, but has been received positively and dubbed a cult phenomenon by critics and Adult Swim itself.
The series has aired 36 episodes and 3 specials over the course of 10 seasons, including two episodes, "Technology" (by Wham City) and "Paradise" (by Ghosting.tv), that Adult Swim announced on October 13, 2017, would air in late 2017. On December 31, 2019, Dave Hughes tweeted that the episode "Patterns" was the "last [one] for now", indicating that the series has been put on hiatus until further notice.[2] On June 9, 2020, the show came back with season 10.
Storyline
TV Show Intro
Sound Effects Used
- Censor Bleep
- Mark VII Limited Hammer Clang Sound (Heard in the Williams Street logo.)
- Sound Ideas, HUMAN, SCREAM - SCREAM: FEMALE, HORROR 04 (Slowed and low pitched. Heard once in "Animals".)
- Sound Ideas, WHIP - BULLWHIP: SINGLE CRACK 01 (Heard once in "Words".)
- Wilhelm Scream (Heard once in "Nonsense".)
Image Gallery
